My first mailbox of the new year contained two fat envelopes from the IRS – one for me, and one for my wife. That’s right: a big fat audit of tax year 2002. I wouldn’t mind so much, except for the fact that I’ve been getting at least three investigations a year for the past […] read more »

As of this writing, the death toll in Iran is 20,000. Here the blogosphere, that’s just a number. But in the world? 20,000 people crushed, suffocated, or otherwise killed? Unimaginable. It was big news to me when I got up this morning and the number was just 4000. I was amazed that the national morning […] read more »

I’ve been working hard this week – as has my webmaster, Dan, rebuilding this site post-hack-attack. We’re pretty much there. Me, well, I’ve been working on rewriting the ending of my graphic novel Club Zero-G, devising my NYU class for next semester (you’re all invited to participate, via blog-conference), finishing the proposal for my book […] read more »

I’m writing this dispatch on my way home from Puerto Rico, where Oscar Arias (Nobel laureate and former President of Costa Rica) and Deepak Chopra (doctor and spiritual teacher) are holding their second annual conference of The Alliance for the New Humanity. The conference is about a lot of things – but, from what I […] read more »

Sorry for the downtime. While I was attending a ridiculous conference for world peace down in Puerto Rico this weekend, a group of crackers from Brazil successfully cracked my webhoster’s linux box, rendering this site and about 50 others unusable for the last few days. I don’t care so much for my part – it’s […] read more »

…no, not by attribution, but I don’t care: the ideas are getting out, and some of my sentences are remaining intact! ” It was a ‘mixed multitude’ that joined together to attain freedom from bondage and covenant through Torah. We were never a homogeneous community …” “We need to liberate ourselves from metric Judaism. Our […] read more »

Well, we did it. Neither the blizzard nor the resultant gridlock were enough to keep us, our equipment, or 400+ people from showing up last night at the Coral Room for our first gig as PTV3 – and my first real gig as a keyboard player. Predictably, a few of the people writing listings for […] read more »

From The Center for Cognitive Liberties: Wired Magazine reports on a new drug-detection patch under development by SpectRx. “For the monitor to work, employees first have to have four microscopic holes — about the size of a human hair — burnt into the outer layer of their skin by a handheld laser… The oval patch […] read more »

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Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Aleister & Adolf, Testament, and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.